A CONVICTED sex pest bombarded a woman office worker with 172 indecent phone calls in a month, a court has heard....

A CONVICTED sex pest bombarded a woman office worker with 172 indecent phone calls in a month, a court has heard.

Kevin O'Shea, aged 40, of Mossdale Close, Radford, Coventry, made 27 calls in one day alone.

Coventry magistrates heard that O'Shea was trapped when his victim, who kept a record of all the calls, used the BT 1471 service to trace his number and told police.

O'Shea yesterday admitted one count of harassment.

The court was told O'Shea was already serving a three-year community rehabilitation order imposed at Coventry Crown Court in April last year for similar offences of making 81 calls to female staff at Rugby school and a care home.

Magistrates yesterday imposed a further two-year community rehabilitation order to run concurrently with the existing order.

They also imposed a two-year restriction order on O'Shea, banning him from any contact with his victim.

Lisa Canning, prosecuting, said he made the calls to an office worker, from October 26 to November 28 last year. All the calls were made from his home or pay phones across the city and in Smethwick, where he was attending sessions as part of his rehabilitation order.

Jeff Segan, defending, said O'Shea, who had been in remand since December, had yet to start the treat-ment on the Sex Offending Programme, as intended by the Crown Court order and had "reverted to type."